First Entry, Tour of the Acropolis, Plaka Walk and Ancient Agora

★★★★★

4 hours

10 people max

Local history and culture

English

Award winning

Book Your Tour

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What you'll do

The Acropolis being one of the most visited monuments in Athens, the best moment to enjoy is before the tides of tourists come battling its entrance. When joining us on the City Tour, you get to see the most popular archeological sites in only one morning. Your local guide will take your small group on an early morning journey of the Acropolis. There, you will visit the Parthenon while it is still fairly quiet, admire the standing out Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Greek Agora, and delve into the maze of streets of Plaka. For history lovers, this tour provides the unique opportunity to learn a lot about Europe’s first democracy in a very short time.

Acropolis
Parthenon
Erechtheum
Monumental Gateway
Temple of Athena Nike
Theater of Dionysus
Theater of Herodes Atticus
Ancient Greek Agora
Temple of Hephaestus
Stoa of Attalos
Roman Agora (from the outside)
Tower of the Winds (from the outside)
Plaka
Tripod Street (Oldest street in the world)
Arch of Hadrian
Lysicrates Monument
Melina Merkouri Cafe

Highlights

Visit the key landmarks of Athens in just four hours. Thanks to our scheduled journey and skip the line ticket, enjoy a nearly empty Acropolis and visit of the Parthenon. Follow the steps of our guide through the most awe inspiring antique buildings among which the Monumental Gateway and Erechtheum. Don’t queue at the entrance of the Ancient Greek Agora with our skip-the-line tickets and head straight for the most impressive monuments like the Temple of Hephaestus. Enter de deadalus of streets of the historic neighborhood of Plaka, and enjoy a view of the Roman Agora and Tower of the Winds (from the outside).

Health & Safety Standards

We take your health and the health of our community seriously. To accomplish this, we have set a series of standards that will be implemented across every tour;

We have has been certified by SanseeShield.com
We use and offer hand sanitizer before, during, and after all tours
We have received health & safety training, are self-monitoring temperatures daily, and trained in group social distancing practices
Masks will be worn and are available if you do not have one
If headsets are needed, they are disinfected at the beginning and end of your experience
All tours are always small groups to give you the maximum comfort and safety

Meeting Spot

Because of Covid19, this tour has been redesigned to guarantee your safety.

Sunday11:00 a.m.

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WHY THE BEST OF ATHENS TOUR

Your local guide will take your small group on an early morning journey of the Acropolis. There, you will visit the Parthenon while it is still fairly quiet, admire the standing out Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Greek Agora, and delve into the maze of streets of Plaka.

About Walk's First Entry, Tour of the Acropolis, Plaka Walk and Ancient Agora

Take a morning to see the top highlights of Athens

Due to Covid-19, this tour has been amended to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our guests.

Starting the tour with your early access ticket to the Acropolis, as you make your way up the hill you will enjoy the sight of the theaters of Dionysus and Herodes Atticus. Upon arrival at the Parthenon before most of the crowds, your native guide will give you a full Parthenon tour followed by other major sights on the hill. Make sure your camera is at the ready for the Monumental Gateway, Erechtheum, and Temple of Nike Athena and of course the mouth dropping views over the city. Departing from the Acropolis, our Athens City Tour penetrates the Ancient Greek Agora with skip-the-line tickets. The site was the commercial and business center of the antique city and many of its ruins date back some 2,500 years. With their stories and fun facts your guide will bring life into the ruins then will lead you on a full tour reaching its climax with the Temple of Hephaestus - one of the least damaged antique temples in the world. The tour will finish in Plaka, where history and present-day will become one as you walk the path of the oldest street in the world. Following your guide to key sites such as the Roman Agora and Tower of the Winds (the first meteorological station in the world), Lysicrates Monument, the Arch of Hadrian and the Melina Merkouri Cafe the tour will end with a special gift : A combo pass that you can use within five days to enter five of the city’s best attractions, including Hadrian’s Library and the Temple of Olympian Zeus.